There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
NIELS BOHRThe opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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No paradox, no progress.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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